It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

I’m very free-spirited.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

I can be a cruel person.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Consequences are unpitying.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I’m an iPod person.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don’t sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Fear is exciting for me.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.